From basic techniques to hands-on experiences in contemporary and multicultural art forms, we strive to
stimulate creative thinking and encourage integration of the arts into every aspect of daily life. All of our
programs are staffed by professional teaching artists.

Enroll in classes by mailing, calling, faxing or emailing the San Luis Obispo Art Center with the student information and the course registration number.
Class size limited to 16, so don’t delay, enroll today!

Mailing Address:
San Luis Obispo Art Center
PO Box 813
San Luis Obispo, CA 93406

Telephone: 543–8562 ext. 1#
FAX: 543–4518
Email: edu@sloartcenter.org

Please Note: There is no registration confirmation however you will be notified if the class is full. A 10% service charge will be assessed on all refunds. All classroom supplies are provided. Visa and MasterCard accepted. Scholarships are available. $5 sibling discount for a family
member in the same class or session.

The Art Center's Youth Education program is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and by Central Coast Funds for Children and Mid-State Bank Foundation.



AFTER SCHOOL ART CLASSES AT THE ART CENTER
Classes are held in the Art Center classroom from 3:30 to 5 pm for children 5 - 6 years old on Mondays, 7 - 8 years old on Tuesdays, and 9 -12 years olds on Wednesdays. All materials are provided. $5 sibling discount for more than one family member enrolled during the same session. Join the Art Center for $45 and the whole family saves on classes for one year. Class size is limited and not guaranteed until payment is received. Scholarships are available.

ARTrageous Summer Art Camps for Children
Download Children Summer Art Camps schedule and registration form

Session 1 Monday, June 15—Friday, June 19
9 am to noon

5 - 6 year olds 7 - 8 year olds 9 - 12 year olds

STORIES IN CLOUDS AND STORMS
with Susan Connors
Use chalk, charcoal and paints to create work inspired by the sky. Learn to see shapes and shades to put in your drawings and paintings.

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3-D STUFF
with Petra Selders
Become an abstract sculptor! Use materials from our planet to make artwork in 3-d space. Everything natural or man-made, from wood, shells, leaves to recycled plastic, aluminum and containers, can be used.

Course: June 1–A
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

RECYCLING INSPIRATION
with Petra Selders
Be inspired by natural and man-made imaginative artwork using cool combined materials. Explore the unexpected!

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BASIC, IMAGINATIVE DRAWING
with Brian Williams
Strengthen your drawing skills. Explore basic line, formation of shapes and development of texture and space. Discover how pencil, ink, pastels, paint can enhance the light, shadow and impact of
your artwork.

Course: June 1–B
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

BASIC, IMAGINATIVE DRAWING
with Brian Williams
Learn how to put what you see on paper— basic lines, shapes, textures and spaces. Discover how pencil, ink, pastels, paint can enhance the light, shadow and \ impact of your artwork.

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OBSERVE AND IMAGINE!
with Susan Connors
Blend what you see in clouds or storms into creative drawings and paintings. Use a variety of artistic styles—impressionism,
surrealism, and cubism—in your artwork.

Course: June 1–C
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

Session 2 Monday, June 22—Friday, June 26
9 am to noon
5 - 6 year olds 7 - 8 year olds 9 - 12 year olds

PUTTING IDEAS ON CLOTH!
with Carol Manuputy
Have fun making mudcloth, dying your ideas into cloth, and forming beautiful artwork with natural wool on felt.

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GROWING A SCULPTURE!
with Petra Selders
Start with simple materials and build on your ideas. Create shapes that go out and up, twist and turn. Make a wonderful sculptures
that you can walk around or let your fingers travel into!

Course: June 2–A
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

BUILDING YOUR SCULPTURE
with Petra Selders
Move into the world of space. Build an imaginative environment with wood, paper, stones, plastic and fun recycled materials.

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BACKGROUND COMING FORWARD!
with Susan Connors
Explore and transform negative space as the subject of your artwork. Sketches will develop into ideas evolving into drawings,
paintings, and mixed media art. Make the negative positive!

Course June 2–B
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

NEGATIVE SPACE GETS POSITIVE
with Susan Connors
Explore and transform negative space as the subject in your artwork. Sketches will develop ideas that will evolve into drawings,
paintings, and mixed media art.

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WORLDWIDE IDEAS ON CLOTH
with Carol Manuputy
Experience cloth as your palette. Use batik, to create repeated designs on cloth. Draw,
print, and dye a variety.

Course June 2–C
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

Session 3 Monday, July 13—Friday, July 17
9 am to noon
5 - 6 year olds 7 - 8 year olds 9 - 12 year olds

WONDERFUL WET PAINTINGS
with Petra Selders
Use your wet brush to make fun filled marks in watercolor. Put lines and shapes together with paint that flows across your art paper.

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IMAGINE THAT!
with Lori Wolf
Find ideas in unexpected places. Create 2-d and 3-d artwork inspired by the rhythm and flowing movement in everyday objects.
Explore imaginative ways to use pencil, ink, paint, pastels, markers and found materials. It’s real fun for young artists!

Course: July 3–A
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

HANDMADE NATURE THEME BOOKS
with Julie Steyer
Create a nature-themed book using printmaking, color, shape, pattern and texture. Have fun exploring as you create a unique
handmade accordion-style book!

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WATERCOLOR WORKS!

with Petra Selders
Explore imaginative color mixing with watercolors. Work in layers with this transparent medium. Learn to energize what you see and create dynamic landscapes and still life in watercolor.

Course: July3–B
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

RHYTHM AND MOVEMENT
with Lori Wolf
Put flowing energy into your drawings, paintings, collages, prints and assemblages.
Be inspired by industrial objects
you observe. Develop 2-d impressions into exciting new 3-d forms.

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HANDMADE NATURE THEME BOOKS

with Julie Steyer
Design a nature themed book using simple printmaking, designs, color, shape, pattern and texture. Completely create a unique
handmade accordion-style book! It’s fun.

Course: July 3 –C
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

Session 4 Monday, July 20—Friday, July 24 Caribbean Carnival
9 am to noon
5 - 6 year olds 7 - 8 year olds 9 - 12 year olds

MASKS AND MOVEMENT
with Carol Manuputy
Make folk art animal and people masks using man-made and natural materials. Carnival masks will be designed. Wear your
screen mask and dance to the Caribbean beat!

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CARIBBEAN MURAL
with Lori Wolf
Put your individual tropical island ideas together to plan and paint a large group mural. Palm trees and ocean breezes create fanciful drawings and vibrant island
colors to bring the mural to life!

Course: July 4 –A
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

TROPICAL DRAWING AND PAINTING
with Susan Connors
Make drawings of tropical fruits and vegetation using various pencils, chalk & oil pastels. Express your realistic and abstract paintings in mixed media. Discover artists
influenced by island culture.

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MASKS AND MOVEMENT
with Carol Manuputy
Make folk art animal and people masks using both man-made and natural materials. Carnival masks will also be designed. Wear your screen mask and dance to the beat!

Course: July 4–B
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

SOUND IN SCULPTURE
with Lori Wolf
Use metal, plastic, wood and more to create hanging artwork that can produce sound. Invent unique ways to incorporate containers into your mobile artwork.

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TROPICAL DRAWING AND PAINTING
with Susan Connors
Make drawings of tropical fruits and vegetation using various pencils, chalk and oil pastels. Express your realistic and abstract
paintings in mixed media. Discover famous artists influenced by the island culture.

Course: July 4 –C
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

Session 5 Monday, August 3 through Friday, August 7
9 am to noon
5 - 6 year olds 7 - 8 year olds 9 - 12 year olds

WEAVE IT!
with Lori Wolf
Make fun weavings in paper, wire & burlap. Create original collages with found materials and weave them together to create bold
new artwork.

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MY PAINTBRUSH!
with Carol Manuputy
Discover what happens when you work with a paintbrush you have made. Put it together for some painting fun! Find out how your art
changes when you use different materials to make a paintbrush. Go for it—brush it!

Course: August 5 –A
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

MAKING YOUR MARK
with Carol Manuputy
Draw and paint with your own handmade brush. Create tools from natural and man made materials to make personal marks in ink, washes, tempera and acrylic paints.

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METAL TOOLING
with Brian Williams
Work with soft metal foils for tooling original designs. Design ideas to emboss with simple modeling tools on this fun material. Incorporate complex pattern making ideas
into your creativity.

Course: August 5–B
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

METAL TOOLING
with Brian Williams
Work with soft metal foils for tooling original designs. Design ideas to emboss with simple modeling tools on this fun material.
Incorporate tessellation into your work.

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WORD WEAVING…AND MORE!
with Lori Wolf
Create original collages out of manipulated paper, wire and recycled materials. Create off-loom weavings incorporating words,
mixed colors, & inspired textures. Learn to weave on card looms.

Course: August 5 –C
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

Session 6 Monday, August 10 through Friday, August 14
9 am to noon
5 - 6 year olds 7 - 8 year olds 9 - 12 year olds

CUT ‘N PASTE!
with Madeline Simonaro
Put color and texture, rough or smooth, thick or thin papers together to build your collage and design freeform 2-d art. Watch
your collage spread out & grow!

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ART IN ROCKS
with Susan Connors
Pick and choose just the right rocks to tell your own story. Your ideas will become fun installations as they are created and change. The rocks will come alive with your inspiration!

Course: August 6 –A
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

PRINTMAKING
with Brian Williams
Learn ways to print your artwork. Build your own blocks. Single and repeated, multi-color designs will be explored. Even use a printing press!

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DESIGN CENTRAL
with Madeline Simonaro
Design original artwork in collage. Using paint and texture, paper and glue, choose a variety of transparent or opaque materials to create freeform collages. Put your artwork together in unique formats and grouped presentations. Collage is fun!

Course: August 6–B
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

ROCKS AND STORIES
with Susan Connors
Explore life stories, parables and myths using the subject of rocks. Connect words from the past to the shape, space & placement
of rocks to convey an idea.

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PRINTMAKING
with Brian Williams
Learn to print your artwork. Build your own blocks. Both single and repeated, multi-color designs will be explored.Water-soluble
ink will be used. Learn to use the printing press for your artwork.

Course: August 6 –C
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

ARTrageous Summer Camps for Teens at the San Luis Obispo Art Center
Download Teen Summer Art Camps schedule and registration form
1 to 4 pm every day

Session 1
June 15 through June 19


Form and Expression in Wood
with artists Janine Kirkpatrick
& Brian Williams


Let wood shapes inspire you to create animal and human forms. Explore varied construction techniques and enhance your sculptures with paint and collage. Create a collaborative piece in
the style of Deborah Butterfield.

Course: TEEN -1
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

Session 2
June 22 through June 26


Creative Printmaking
with artist Barbara Rosenthal

Combine printmaking techniques
to create dynamic, dimensional art.
Watch your ideas explode as you
experiment with the printing process.

Course: TEEN-2
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

SESSION 3
July 13 through July 17


Peaceful Visions in Nature

with artist Julie Steyer

Explore personal and natural symbols of identity and peace using a variety of materials. Creatively express your ideas through colored pencil medicine
wheels, hot/cold yin-yang, and identity symbols in layered collage.

Course: TEEN-3
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

Session 4 TEEN - 4
July 20 through July 24


Life size Human Forms
with artist Suzette Morrow

Create human figures using unique materials—plaster bandages, packing tape, etc. Work in the style of George Segal to produce parts for incorporation into your full size human figure. It’s all about arms, legs, masks, torsos.

Course: TEEN -4
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

Session 5 TEEN - 5
August 3 through August 7


Transformation:
Science with Imagination

with artist Tim Anderson

Use a combination of planning drawings to develop a large collaborative mural. Start with images from science and change them into imaginative forms through collage and painting.

Course: TEEN -5
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

Session 6 TEEN - 6
August 10 to August 14


Landscape Layers
with artist Brian Williams

Using aspects of our landscape environment, create drawings and paintings on a variety of surfaces. Explore the layers in landscapes! Work in pencil, charcoal, watercolor and acrylic paints. Stretch out to the horizon with your artwork.

Course: TEEN -6
Cost: $95 members, $115 non-members

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Paso Robles Summer Art Camps. 2 sessions for children 7-8 and 9-12 years old at the Bauer Elementary School, Monday-Thursday, 9 to noon. All materials provided. Scholarships available. Cost: $75 per session.
Download Schedule and Registration Form. Cost $75 per camp.

Session 1: Monday, June 22 through Thursday, June 25, 9 am to noon

7 to 8 year olds
Course PR1–A
Print, Print, Printmaking with artist Laura Olson
Create lines and shapes using cardboard, string, and foam. Use a brayer and ink to make colorful copies of your artwork.

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Mural with Friends with artist Suzette Morrow

Draw your ideas of friends in California and South of the Border. Work together to paint a mural of friendship.

9 to 12 year olds
Course PR1–B
Faces and Mexican Masks with artist Suzette Morrow
Focus on faces! Sketch and paint portraits in pencil, charcoal and acrylic paints. Make 3-D Mexican clay masks of people, birds or animals.

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Print, Print, Printmaking with artist Laura Olson
Create lines and shapes using cardboard, string, and foam. Use a brayer and ink to make colorful copies of your artwork.
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Session 2: Monday, July 13 through Thursday, July 16, 9 am to noon

7 to 8 year olds
Course PR2–A
Latin American Masks with artist Carolyn Balogh
Discover and be inspired by the colorful masks of Latin America. Design and create your own masks using paper mache, clay, natural materials, paper and paint!.

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It’s All About You with artist Suzette Morrow

Create surreal self-portraits using collage and mixed media in the style of Frida Kahlo. Make a personal retablo using a box and mixed media to express who you are.

9 to 12 year olds
Course PR2–B
It’s All About You with artist Suzette Morrow
Create surreal self-portraits using collage and mixed media in the style of Frida Kahlo. Make a personal retablo using a box and mixed media to express who you are.

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Oaxacan Animals with artist Carolyn Balogh
Create animal forms from paper, wire and clay. Decorate your fanciful art adding colorful textural details with acrylic paint.

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AFTER SCHOOL ART CLASSES at Monarch Grove Elementary. For 8 to 12 year olds. All materials are provided. Class size is limited and not guaranteed until payment is received. Scholarships are available.

Download PDF of Los Osos Jan - May 2009 schedule and registration form.

April 9, 23, 30, MAY 7
Thursdays , 2:30 to 4 pm

BUTTERFLIES IN FLIGHT!
With teaching artist Carol Manuputy
Learn to cut stencils and develop repeated patterns. Monarch Grove butterflies will be stenciled on paper and on the walls of the school. Be a public art artist!
Course #MG-APR; Cost $44

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AFTER SCHOOL ART CLASSES will be held at the Arroyo Grande Chamber of Commerce's Conference Room at the South County Regional Center, adjacent to the library, 800 West Branch, Arroyo Grande. Lots of easy parking. All materials are provided. Class size is limited and not guaranteed until payment is received. Scholarships are available.

Watch for After School Art Classes next fall !

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AFTER SCHOOL ART CLASSES at San Gabriel Elementary School. Tuesdays, 3 to 4:30 pm. $44 enrollment fee per month. All materials provided. Scholarships available.
Visa and MasterCard accepted.

Watch for After School Art Classes next fall !

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Loosen Up with Aquamedia Painting
It’s Like 4 Years of Art School!
Friday - Sunday, May 29 - 31, 2009
9 - 4 pm in the Nybak Wing
with Robert Burridge

Burridge’s popular “Loosen Up” workshops nurture individual success and personal enrichment with a big emphasis on daily painting projects at your own pace. It is stress-free, but be warned; you could end up with too much enthusiasm for painting. Burridge’s flagship workshop offers a variety of painting subjects for everyone. A highly energized painting workshop emphasizing loose and creative experimentation. Designed for the professional painter who is stuck in a style as well as for the novice who wants to conquer their fear of painting. Starting with small 6”x9” multiple “warm-up painting exercises” up to larger-format paintings, Burridge’s positive approach towards the act of painting will inspire you to loosen up, have fun again and paint more! Expect an intense, concentrated and lively workshop where you will create many works of art using spontaneity for maximum effect. His critiques are famous for “how to look at your own work” and “where do I go from here?” This workshop has become a must for artists who want the confidence and permission to paint the way they have always wanted to paint.Students will take home preprinted notes of useful and need-to-know information. A positive attitude is a must! Burridge’s newest color wheel technique is also included.

Cost $225 members, $245 nonmembers
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Everything Old is New Again: A Look at the Figure in the 21st Century
Monday - Friday, September 21 - 25, 2009
9 - 3 pm in the Nybak Wing
with Joanne Beaule Ruggles

Join New York artists in re-discovering the currency of the human figure. Spend a week of intense activity concentrating on terrain that was described by the "art establishment" as passé as recently as 5 years ago. Now the New York Times features a headline "Trendy Artists Pick Up Old-Fashioned Habit" in discussing the weekly life sessions occurring on the Lower East Side. Earlier in the year, the Times tell us that Charles Saatchi, Britain's most famous collector has dumped his conceptual and video collection to "proclaim the rebirth of painting". So what are we to do? Keep on doing what many of us have been doing - paint and draw the figure!
This contemporary issues figure workshop will have daily themes covering current issues such as narration, appropriation, collaboration, pastiche and alternative representations. The artwork of important international figure artists such as Jenny Saville, Eric Fischl, Marlene Dumas, Jerome Witkin, Lucien Freud, and others will be featured in slides and discussions. Longtime figure artist and retired studio art professor Joanne Beaule Ruggles will lead this figure workshop. The recommended supplementary text is The Undressed Art by Peter Steinhart.

Cost $300 members, $345 nonmembers
Course #Fig09
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Plein Air with Punch! (In Oil or Pastel)
Thursday - Saturday, 8 am - 4 pm
September 24 - 26, 2009
(with a special evening demo and Supper Party on Sept. 23)
with Bonnita Budysz

Immerse yourself in the natural wonders of the Arroyo Grande area. We will explore how to achieve color luminosity and radiance in on-location landscape painting, with Bonnita as your guide. You will learn her secrets of painting outdoors—meeting the challenges of changing light and atmosphere with confidence. Learn to simplify what you see for maximum effect. You will focus on dynamic compositions, luminous color harmonies, correct values, edge variety and expressing your own personal style. Bonnita will give a live demo every day, highlighting the properties of both oil paints and pastel pigments, sharing techniques and fundamental principles of manipulating the media of your choice. Her personalized attention and guidance at your easel throughout the day is tailored specifically to your individual needs. A shared critique at the end of the last day will pull it all together for your continued artistic growth. For more information on Bonnita Budysz art career and workshop skills click on www.bonnitabudysz.com

Cost: $300 for 3 day workshop (15 students maximum)
Cost: $50 for Evening Demo & Supper Party ( 30 people maximum)

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Abstract Acrylic Painting and Collage
Friday - Sunday, November 6, 7, 9, 2009
9 - 4 pm in the Nybak Wing
with Robert Burridge

Creative tearing and paint splashing starts off this all new “Loosen Up Workshop.” Also you will learn how to begin a new fresh body of work with your own artistic voice and point of view. Think “artist retreat,”
producing a body of work, a series of paintings or your conceptual solo show. Robert Burridge, along with his famous daily handouts, demos and lectures, helps and guides you to paint the way you have always wanted to paint. Daily you can expect warmup paint sketching, brief painting and lecture demos, constructive critiques and plenty of time to work on personal projects. Come prepared to paint your stuff!

Cost $225 members, $245 nonmembers
Course #ABS09

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Life Drawing/Sculpture


Life drawing has moved from Monday evenings to Wednesdays, 6:30-9:30 PM This session will also now cater to those of you who wish to sculpt from the live model. There will be two poses during the session. If you wish to sculpt, you need to bring clay and supplies, a board support, and a plastic milk crate to raise up the board (or a sculpting stand). The model will be stationary on a high platform in the center of the room. You will be able to move around during the pose, in order to capture the three-dimensional aspect of the figure. Wednesday morning life drawing classes continue from 9:00 am–noon, in the Nybak Wing. For both, a model is provided, but no instruction. Bring your own art supplies. Tables and some easels are available.

Cost: $8 members, $10 nonmembers per class.
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Thursday Painters
Artists meet at inspiring locations throughout the county each Thursday, 9:30 a.m. through lunch.
Discussion and critique of art is included. Bring your own supplies and a bag lunch.

Email artmom5@gmail.com for locations and dates.
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Since 1992 Integrated Arts for the Classroom has offered workshops
• Demonstrating how the arts relate to the values of a culture
• Integrating the arts with other subjects in the curriculum through hands-on music, dance, theater and visual arts
• Based on California curriculum content standards and assessment rubrics
Contact bethmott@charter.net or call 805–543–7072 for information.
Dr. Bernice Loughran-Nicholson, Beth Mott and Susane Rotalo, Coordinators


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A Very Special Day-Trip to LACMA for…

Pompeii and the Roman Villa:
Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples
May 11, 2009

This is a limited engagement exhibit at LACMA coming from the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, DC. Your trip includes a 50-minute privately led docent tour of this specially
ticketed show. On the ride down, there will be a lecture about the lifestyles of the rich and
famous in 79 AD along with supportive educational materials to peruse before arriving at the
exhibition. While at LACMA, dine in the excellent café or bring your own lunch. On the way
home we will stop in Santa Barbara for dinner downtown. For reservations, call 543-8562, or
email mjohnston@sloartcenter.org. Download brochure for more information.

Cost for members $110, for nonmembers $135.


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